Title: Dragon’s CrownPlatform: PS3/VitaGenre: Action RPGLanguage: English (Japanese)Company: Vanillaware/ATLUSSummary: Well worth the money as long as you put the time into it past the slow beginnings.~~(more…)

Title: Danball Senki W (ダンボール戦機W)Console: PSPGenre: Action RPGLanguage: JapaneseCompany: Level-5 (with development by Tri-Ace)Summary: Cleared the Vita version, screenshots up! Also cleared the Ranking Battle on Vita. Details in the review.
Cleared the game on the PSP before I started the Vita version (in less than 30 hours)! Lots of screenshots and stuff up. My Vita version finally arrived on November 6 (and congrats Obama!! What a memorable day).

Grinding on this game post-story is a whole ton easier than Boost, which is GREAT. I finally can actually get characters and parts to level 200 without playing hundreds of ridiculous hours.

Just to clear things up early on, and I cannot stress this enough:PLAY DANBALL SENKI BOOST (or Baku Boost) BEFORE PLAYING THIS GAME. Even if you’ve watched the anime, you should still play the original game first. The original game experience is unique in itself. I dare say the experience of the original game is just better overall at this point, even if W has lots of great new features to it.

Title:Tales of Hearts (Anime Version)
Tales of Hearts R テイルズ オブ ハーツRConsole: NDS/VitaGenre: Action RPGLanguage: JapaneseCompany: NamcoSummary:
Famitsu gave the DS version a 33/40 (compared to 35/40 and 36/40 they’ve given to the other mothership titles, Abyss, Innocence, Vesperia, Graces), which I would agree with (but I don’t agree with their 32/40 for Rebirth. :| ).

Vita result – Great, but not as impressed as I hoped to be. Beat main story at around 30 hours. Dunno how much post-content stuff I’ll get through, but I do eventually want to do a second playthrough, since I didn’t bother with any subevents unless I came across them coincidentally.(more…)

Title: Tales of Innocence テイルズ オブ イノセンス
Tales of Innocence R テイルズ オブ イノセンス RConsole: NDS, VitaGenre: Action RPG, FantasyLanguage: JapaneseCompany: NamcoSummary: DS result – I lost my save file for this a while back and had to start over, and now I keep forgetting to continue my play for this even though I do want to finish it. My usual incomplete RPG syndrome. XD;

Vita – Completed in under 30 hrs. Characters were level 70 post-game (out of 200) at the 30-hour mark. Pretty short, but fun! The two additional characters are really fun to play as well.(more…)